Forster said that the required traffic study would be submitted to Conshohocken officials within two weeks.

“I think we have done a lot of things to make this a good project. We would like to get a vote tonight,” Campbell said.

Commission member Joseph Dougherty Jr. asked where the river and the floodway are located in relation to the building.

“We are not proposing to do anything in the floodway,” Campbell said. “We are in the flood plain.”

The Schuylkill River Trail will pass through the area of the building and it might need to be rerouted to avoid a conflict with parking under the bridge, Campbell said. The SEPTA parking area under the bridge will have to be redesigned when the apartment building is constructed.

Zoning Officer Christine Stetler said that the developer needed to request an extension of 30 days for site plan approval because a required zoning decision will not be rendered until mid-January 2014.

A conditional use hearing on the project was held Nov. 20 by Conshohocken Borough Council, which agreed to make a decision by Jan. 15, 2014. The developer agreed council can exceed the statutory 45-day decision limit by nine days to allow council to render the decision at its regular January meeting.

At the council meeting, architect Hal Bolton, representing the developer, said that different colors were used in the facade and there were also architectural “breaks” to make it look more interesting.

The breaks in the architectural facade allowed the developer to increase the total bulk of the building, Bolton said, and the area around the proposed building had commercial and industrial uses that influenced the apartment building design.